Parking light



March 17, 1925. 1,529,745

R. V. KUHNS PARKING LIGHT Filed May 18 1923 Patented Mar. 17, 1925.

PATENT OFFICE.

RALPH V. KUHNS, OF ALLEN'TOWN, PENNSYLVANTA.

PARKING LIGHT.

Application filed May 18,

7'0 11 l i/um 1'! may concern:

Be it known that I, RALPH V. KuHNs, a citizen of United States, residing at Allentown. in the county of Lehigh and State of lrennsylvania. have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Parking Lights, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to parking lamps, and has special reference to a parking and step illuminating lamp.

One. important object of the invention is to improve the general construction of devices of this character.

A second important object of the invention is to provide an improved form of parking lamp arranged to show a light both from the front and the back of the car, and to also illuminate the step, such parking lamp being supported on a novel and improved form of bracket, the latter constituting the stem or handle of the lamp.

\Vith the above and other objects in view as will be hereinafter apparent, the invention consists in general of certain novel details of construction and combinations of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings and specifically claimed.

In the accompanying drawings like characters of reference indicate like parts in the several views. and:

Fig. 1 is a side view of a portion'of a car body showing the lamp in position thereon.

Fig. 2 is a bottom view of said lamp.

Fig. 3 is a section on line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a detail section on line 44 of Fig. 2.

in the embodiment of the invention herein illustrated, it Will be seen that there is provided a lamp having a cylindrical body portion 10. Centrally of this body portion there is a suitable opening 11 to receive-the reduced threaded end12 of a stem 13, the lamp body around this opening being fiattened. as at 14 to engage against the shoulder between the reduced end 12 and the body of the stem-13. Within the body of the lamp is a segmento-cylindrical nut 15, which is engaged by the threaded end 12 so that the stem may be clearly fixed to the lamp.

It is to be observed that by reason of the segmento-cylindrical construction of this nut, the nut is held from turning through its engagement with the cylindrical interior of the bod The end of the stem 13 remote from the ody 10 is truncated, as at'16, to

1923. Serial NO. 639,818.

form a flat surface arranged at an acute angle to the axis of the stem. Through this stem extends an opening having a central portion 1?, and a portion 18 arranged perpendicularly with respect to the surface 16, and threaded as clearly shown in Fig. 3. At the other end of the opening 17, there is provided an enlarged portion 19 to receive the base )0 of a lamp 21, which is thus positioned eentrally of the body 10. Opposite. this lamp 21 is a window opening closed with a suitable glass 22, and it will be observed that this opening is parallel to the axis of the stem, and positioned on the same side of the stem as the surface 16. Within the threaded opening 18 is screwed the shank 23 of a bolt having a head 24 of substantiall v greater diameter than the shank, and this bolt is provided with an axial opening 25 extending therethrough, so that the wire 26 may be led through the bolt and up the stem to the lamp base. At each end of the body. there is provided a shoulder 27 against which rests a closure 28 of glass or other transparent material, the closure being held in position by means of a snap ring 29 seating in a suitable groove 30.

lVhen in use this lamp is positioned on the side of the car body, as shown in Figure 1, and in this position. it will be seen that the window 22 throws light downwardly on the running board of the car, while the windows in the ends of the body 10 throw light forwardly and backwardly, the rear window being preferably colored red, as is usual in such cases.

There has thus been provided a simple and efficient device of the kind described and for the purpose specified.

It is obvious that minor changes may be made in the form and construction of the invention without departing from the material spirit thereof. It is not, therefore. desired to confine the invention to the exact form herein shown and described, but it is desired to include all such. as properly come within the scope claimed.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new, is:

1. Ina parking lamp, a hollow body portion open at each end. a stem projecting laterally from said body and having the end remote from the body diagonally truncated to provide .a broad fiat surface, said stem having an opening extending longitudinally therethrough, said opening having a portion at the end remote from the body arranged at right angles to the truncated face and interiorly threaded, and a short bolt screwed into said threaded end, said bolt having an axial opening extending entirely through the bolt and being provided With a head of substantially greater diameter than its body.

remote from the to provide a broad flat surface, said stem having an opening extending longitudinally therethrough, said opening having a portion.

2. In a parking lamp, a hollow body'portion open at each end, a stem projecting laterally from said body and having the end body diagonally truncated at the end remote from the body arranged at right angles to the truncated face and interiorly threaded, said opening-having its inner end enlarged to receive a lamp base, and a short bolt screwed into said threaded end, said bolt having an axial opening extending entirely through the bolt and being provided with a head of substantially greater diameter than its body. a

3. In a parking lamp, a hollow body portion open at each end, a stem projecting laterally from said body and having the end remote from the body diagonally truncated to provide a broad flat surface, said stem having an opening extending longitudinally therethrough, said opening having a portion at the end remote from the body arranged at right teriorly threaded, said opening having its inner end enlarged to receive a lamp base,

saidbolt having an axial opening extending entirely through the bolt and being provided a short bolt screwed into said threaded end,

with a head of substantially greater diameter than itsv body, allamp having its base'fitted insaid enlarged end, and a window in said body opposite the lamp and parallel to the angles to the truncated face and in- 

